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...Obama also has some ammunition that Clinton never had: a new Gallup poll finds that most conservatives - 58% - now support openly gay people serving in uniform (nationally, 69% support the change; when Clinton assumed office, a Gallup poll found 53% of those polled opposed lifting the ban). Perhaps even more surprising, 58% of self-described Republicans, and 60% of weekly churchgoers, also support gay men and women serving openly in uniform. "While the Administration to date has not taken action on the issue," the polling firm reported last Friday, "the Gallup Poll data indicate that the public-opinion environment favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dismay Over Obama's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Turnabout | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

Across the country, most surveys indicate that the majority of people remain opposed to legalizing gay marriage--57%, according to a recent Gallup poll. But as cultural battlefields go, opponents are on the losing side of demographics. Nearly 60% of those under 30 favor gay marriage, compared with fewer than 40% of older people. On other issues as well, attitudes have evolved in the direction of equality. Today more than two-thirds of Americans think that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military and that their partners should have access to employee benefits like health care. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...perhaps an inevitable consequence of European parliamentary elections that voters in country after country across the continent so often choose to thump national politicians over distinctly domestic issues. As the results of Thursday's Europe-wide poll trickled in late Sunday, nowhere was that more evident than Britain. Rounding off an abysmal week for Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister's Labour Party slumped to third in the Euro vote with just 15.7% of the vote, far behind the opposition Conservatives and trumped even by the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), a fringe group whose singular focus is to get Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...have to go back close to 100 years to find a worse result for Labour in a national poll. In a couple of southern English regions, the party fell to fifth behind the Greens; Labour came second to the Conservatives in Wales, where it has won in election after election for decades. (Read "Europe's Voters Reward the Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...Brown, the impact could be most painful of all. Labour lost control of all four of its remaining county councils in local elections also held last Thursday. And as a string of disillusioned Ministers rushed for the exits in the days on either side of the poll, Brown even bungled a Cabinet reshuffle designed to reassert his authority. Trailing in third in the European elections leaves the PM "beaten by a party that he mocked and derided as being on the fringes," said UKIP leader Nigel Farage. "So if we have beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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